Weekly market update – week ending 6 April, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had another volatile week – starting down as the US announced details of proposed 25% tariff hikes on $US50bn

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09 Apr 2018

Weekly market update – week ending 29 March, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had another messy week with an early bounce as investors realised that trade war fears were overstated but concerns

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03 Apr 2018

Share market volatility – Trump and trade war risks

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Key points Worries about the Fed, trade wars (the risk of which has been significantly exaggerated) and President Trump generally have increased the risk around the global outlook but are

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28 Mar 2018

Weekly market update – week ending 23 March, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets fell again over the last week not helped initially by tech stocks (partly due to a privacy breach at

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26 Mar 2018

Weekly market update – week ending 16 March, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were a bit messy over the last week as worries about US trade barriers continued, particularly in relation to

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19 Mar 2018

Weekly market update – week ending 9 March, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Despite a bit of volatility around the US tariff issue and the Italian election share markets bounced back over the last

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12 Mar 2018

Weekly market update – week ending 2 March, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets turned back down over the last week as inflation and Fed fears continued to ramp up on the back

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05 Mar 2018

Weekly market update – week ending 23 February, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets were mixed over the last week with the US share market giving up a bit of its rebound from

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26 Feb 2018

Weekly market update – week ending 16 February, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets rebounded over the last week as share investors became a bit more relaxed about the prospect of higher inflation

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19 Feb 2018

The pullback in shares – seven reasons not to be too concerned

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Key points The current pullback in shares has been triggered by  worries around US inflation, the Fed and rising bond yields but made worse by an unwinding of bets that

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12 Feb 2018